I didn’t think that Roman women were allowed to recline? 🤔

I have mixed feelings. In the end it appears to be the only way to be relatively safe from invasion by a more powerful country. 😞

In principle one should save a lot of money with heat pumps. Surely one can get a low-interest loan for the amount by increasing one’s mortgage, which should more than pay for itself?

Yeah it’s weird. Texas has massive amounts of both wind and solar. I guess the state’s self-image means that they have to use fossil fuels? Sort of like everyone in Texas needs a truck even if they just drive to work and supermarkets?

In my mind the punks arose in England at a period where the UK was enduring ongoing pain from the end of their global empire. Quoting the Sex Pistols:

No future, no future for me No future, no future for you

The solarpunk movement is different. It shares the punk recognition that mainstream ideas are poison, but in the rejection it embraces a hopeful attitude, with the belief that people can work together to make things better.

Punks are a bit more nihilistic than Franklin was, I think?

Yeah it’s tricky. I really think energy costs should be split between landlords and tenants somehow.

Or, you know, eliminate private ownership of residential real estate…

Since “green hydrogen” is basically a fiction right now, heat pumps (or neighborhood heating, as someone else mentioned) are the only option we have.

So the US response to global warming will be to put murder bots along all the borders. 😬

It was kept in a bucket of vinegar. I’m sure that it was completely fine.

An almost inevitable result of venture capital, IMHO.

A lot of dictators die peacefully in their sleep a night. 😞

I mean, you can get rid of NAT and subnet your systems in a logical fashion. That’s pretty awesome.

I use ULA for my WireGuard tunnels, otherwise it’s all public IPv6 (mostly lightly firewalled).

I’m fine with SLAAC, even for servers. I just manually update my DNS with the server addresses when I set them up.

I give money to LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Armbian, the Wikipedia, and so on. I don’t have to, but it shows my appreciation, and maybe helps them do more in some small way.

I thought waiting to unpack was an indication that they didn’t want to waste time, and disconnecting the phone was so that they wouldn’t be disturbed? 🤔

Very minor note. The blog mentions that the attacker was unlikely to have gained anything by Monero mining. However the Monero page itself says:

Monero can be mined by both CPUs and GPUs, but the former is much more efficient.

https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/mining/

I got 135 blocks via sshguard over the first 12 hours today. So, yeah, welcome to the Internet! 😄

You could ask the people in your union to help you survive, oh wait…

I pay the FNV (a sort of union of unions here in the Netherlands) because they kept taking the government to court because the government wasn’t following its own laws… and they kept winning. They don’t help my job because I’m in IT and class consciousness hasn’t reached there yet, but someday…